History of Comstock, (Kalamazoo County) Michigan United States of America

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George Willis Cooke Biographical Sketch

George Willis Cooke, author, was born in Comstock, Mich., April 23, 1848; son of Hiram and Susan Jane (Earl) Cooke. He attended Olivet college, Mich., Jefferson institute, Wis., and Meadville theological school, Pa., being ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1872. He held various pastorates in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Massachusetts, and in 1898 took charge of the First Parish church in Dublin, N. H., spending his winters in Boston in literary pursuits. He delivered two lectures before the Concord school of philosophy in 1883-85, and a course before the Peabody institute of Baltimore, Md. In the winter of 1897-98 he gave a course of six lectures before the Cambridge conferences on "The Place of Woman in the History of Civilization," published in book form in 1898. His published writings, besides numerous contributions to periodical literature, include: Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings and Philosophy (1881); George Eliot; a Critical Study of her Life, Writings and Philosophy (1883); Poets and Problems (1886); The Clapboardtrees Parish, Dedham, Mass.: a History (1887); A Guide Book to the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (1891); Early Letters of George William Curtis to John S. Dwight: Brook Farm and Concord (1898); John S. Dwight, a Biography (1898). He edited The Poets of Transcendentalism (1903).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor